Quote of the Day: We Hate When We Lose Hundreds of Guns Edition

“I’m always concerned when we have about 300 guns that are unaccounted for. We’re doing our best to ensure that the situation doesn’t occur again in the future.” – San Jose deputy police chief Phan Ngo in Unaccounted For: Hundreds of Guns Lost or Stolen From Bay Area Police Agencies Since 2010 [at nbcbayarea.com]

If a law abiding citizen has a firearm stolen, it’s “how could you be so careless and irresponsible…?”

When a government agency “loses” a weapon purchased with the taxpayer’s money, through internal or external theft or negligence, it’s … “These things happen…” We’ll do a thorough investigation but no one will get bad paper, fired or charged.

Open your printer app and print this story and put it in your gun cabinet . If there is ever a time when you have to hide your guns from the grabbers , hide them of coarse and leave only this copy of this article in your gun vault .
Then just shrug your shoulders and say , sorry , me too .

I was really playing with the number. Just imagine 300 well trained and armed individuals holding off the largest military force in the land for a few days…then add to their arsenal a few 40 mm launchers and numerous missing toys from the SJPD. ?

With regards to the article none of this surprises me in the slightest. I just wish there were actual consequences for individuals who cannot account for weapons paid by the citizens… Especially nfa items that normal people are barred from owning back home ie the m16s and launchers…

If you had 300 paperwork violations that resulted in your being unable to even say where 300 guns were, I’m pretty sure you’d be doing serious time in Club Fed.

But, if you are a police chief, in charge of hundreds of badge toting felons, it’s no big deal when your employees steal 300 guns and you can’t account for them. (I assume nobody believes the number of San Jose officers who committed on the job felonies in the past year is less than 100, so I stand by my ‘hundreds of felons’ claim)

“We are ensuring this doesn’t happen in the future by warning our officers that taking guns home for their collection will be punished the next time it happens, of course we can’t punish people today because that might hurt some feelings since the officers might feel they weren’t adequately warned of the consequences for such actions”

“An illegal police-grade gun is in public hands!” I completely do not care. The hand-wringing about illegal guns is for advocates of public disarmament. Everyone should have easy access to firearms. Theft is wrong, but other than that there’s nothing wrong with guns like these in public hands. If people choose to disobey evil and illegal unconstitutional laws in order to commit the moral act of being armed to protect themselves and others, it doesn’t bother me at all. I only hope they don’t get treated like a murderer and locked up for years on a mandatory sentence instituted by Bloomberg.